Links to the News Corp. story accounted for 19% of the links, down from a whopping 53% the week before, even though there was a spotlight on the story this week with testimony in Parliament by James and Rupert Murdoch and even a pie-throwing anarchist in the mix.

Rounding out the top five news links on Twitter were stories about Google+ (16% of the links), the new social network site gunning for Facebook; another hacking story (9%) about someone who hacked into his neighbor's Wi-Fi to try and frame the family (9%), another Google story (9%), this one about how search engines may be changing the way people's brains organize and store info; and coming in at number five with 7% was the story of "an exotic animal owner who choked to death on a sex toy."